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  La Principessa Straniera / The Foreign Princess

  Rebecca Ruyack

  Type of Project:

  Student Project

  Project Description:

  A dual-language multimedia presentation of an original Italian fable created for ITLN 2233: Creative Writing in Italian. Winner of the Humanities Institute's 2020 Digital Humanities Prize for Best Individual Submission.

  Author's statement: "My creative work is informed by additional research I conducted on Italian folktales. This project was designed to make what I learned in class accessible to a wider, non-Italian speaking audience and it will be of interest to students interested in translation studies. When addressing the incorporation of multiple media, I wanted to go beyond text. My project utilized several modes, including linguistic (with my writing), visual (with the pictures I used), and aural (listening to an embedded YouTube video of me reading). I used the software Adobe Spark, which allowed me to incorporate images and audio throughout my writing. The correspondence of text and image was designed to facilitate the understanding of a non-native speaker reading through the fairy tale for the first time, by looking to the images for visual clues to help understand the text. I also wanted my project to be easily navigable and understandable for a public audience, therefore I chose to structure my project around a single web page that links to each section."

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  The Vincent J. Rosivach Register of Slaves in Fairfield, Connecticut

  Vincent J. Rosivach, Giovanni Ruffini, Alec Lurie, and Olivia McEvoy

  Type of Project:

  Faculty Contribution; Student Project

  Project Description:

  The Vincent J. Rosivach Register of Slaves in Fairfield, Connecticut (1639-1820) is a comprehensive database of enslaved individuals in colonial and post-colonial Fairfield. This database is searchable, and will be able to track projection of slave families as well as movement across households and other important information related to the slave, their family, and their history. While there are some distinct contrasts between Northern and Southern slavery, one of the key similarities is the lack of proper record-keeping of these enslaved individuals’ identities. The database compiles information including birth, death, and distribution of slaves in colonial and post-colonial Fairfield into a single site to help formulate a once-broken narrative. In several cases, we were able to piece together entire families of slaves, identifying a lineage previously scattered across countless documents.

  The Register uses primary source property documents, church records, newspaper advertisements, military records, and museum archives to compile a list of slaves and the households they were a part of.

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  Eloquentia Perfecta: Fairfield Core Writing Anthology of Student Work

  Fairfield University Core Writing Program

  Type of Project:

  Pedagogy; Student Project

  Project Description:

  This Anthology presents exemplary writing by first-year students in the Core Writing Program. As the first “born digital” volume, it introduces students to the elegance of digital publication. The Anthology demonstrates the Core Writing Program's dedication to the Jesuit tradition of eloquentia perfecta—the notion of active engagement with language in the service of public good and personal development.

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  Map of Early Modern London

  Shannon E. Kelley

  Type of Project:

  Faculty Contribution; Pedagogy; Student Project

  Project Description:

  The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML), is an ongoing project by the University of Victoria to map the spatial imaginary of Shakespeare’s city. The project asks how London’s spaces and places were named, traversed, used, repurposed, and contested by various practitioners, writers, and civic officials. MoEML’s maps allow users to plot people, historical documents, literary works, and recent critical research onto topography and the built environment.

  Shannon Kelley is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner of the project. Students enrolled in English 213 – Shakespeare I at Fairfield University in the Fall of 2014 also contributed to the project.

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  "Beauty and the Beast" Through the Ages: Exploring the Feminist and Narratological Implications of Attempts to Modernize the Classic Tale

  Jessica Romeo and Nels C. Pearson

  Type of Project:

  Student Project

  Project Description:

  Beauty and the Beast from the 18th Century to the Present is an interactive eBook (created using Apple's iBook Author) by Jessica Romeo '17 as part of her EN 390 Literature Capstone, taught by Professor Nels Pearson, in the fall of 2017. The project offers both a critical overview and interactive timeline of the history of adaptations of Beauty and the Beast from the 18th Century to the present.

  Note: For best experience, use iBook application on Mac or iOS devices to open the iBook file (.ibooks). Users without Apple devices can view the regular pdf version (without interactive elements).